Wednesday, August 9, 2017

No Wednesday Reads Because...

I’m reading a really good book, but it’s long (573 pages)
and I’m now spending my days binge-watching The Vampire Diaries, so it’ll be
awhile before I finish the book.

And I’m certainly not getting any writing done. Priorities!

But I’m amazed at how much I remember of the first season of
TVD. So much so, that I thought some of the characters showed up in later
seasons. Wrong! Maybe my memory isn’t as bad as I thought.

I’m having fun watching the episodes again. Especially now
that I don’t have to zip through commercials. I swear, The CW shows more
commercials than any other network. Each episode of TVD is 40 minutes long.
That’s 20 minutes of commercials when it airs. This is why I record all shows.

Well… except for sports. I do watch those live.

Recently, Spectrum changed our “bundle” package by taking
out all the movie channels and charging us separately. I don’t know what kind
of “bundle” that left us, except phone and internet. But I wasn’t about to pay
$59 for channels we rarely watch, so I called and cancelled that portion. I’d
probably quit cable altogether, but we like our sports and face it, TV is
easier to record and watch than downloading from some internet site (especially
when our internet is wonky at times).

So… How often do you read really long books? Do you like
them long? I prefer long to short, but sometimes those thick ones will cause me
to hesitate picking it up. I like time to read those books (because they tend
to be complicated reads due to many story lines) and if I see I won’t have
time, then I’ll find something shorter. But in this case, I guess I forgot I
wanted to watch TVD (and have little time to get the series watched). Ooops.

6 comments:

Thank God for DVR! That's how I watch most shows now. We have Direct TV with no movie packages and it's expensive, but hey, I do watch a ton of shows. (Commercial free of course.)Really long books take me months to read. What I get for being a slow reader.

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